How Robinhood is building the future of investing, with chief product officer Aparna Chennapragada
Decoder with Nilay Patel
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.2 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:59.5 | Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Apatel, Editor and Chief of the Verge, and Decoder |
| 1:05.5 | is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today I'm talking to Uperna Chena Pregada, |
| 1:10.9 | she's the Chief Product Officer at Robinhood. That's the popular stock and crypto trading |
| 1:15.8 | app. And we've got some news to discuss. Robinhood is launching a new cash card today that |
| 1:21.8 | allows people to spend money directly out of the Robinhood account and set up various |
| 1:26.1 | plans to automatically invest by rounding up purchase amounts to the nearest dollar, |
| 1:30.7 | and putting the difference in various investments. Now, Uperna has a fascinating background. She |
| 1:36.4 | was at Google for a long time where she ran product teams for search and shopping and |
| 1:41.8 | served as technical advisor to the CEO. She's actually all over the Verge. We've talked |
| 1:46.0 | to her a lot about various Google product launches over the years. So first I wanted to |
| 1:50.5 | know why she left a big company like Google for a startup. Especially one like Robinhood |
| 1:54.9 | that works in a complicated and heavily regulated space like finance. I also wanted to know |
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